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Quotes by Rwandan Authors
"Forgiveness is all about love. Where love abounds, there forgiveness will not tarry."
"Writing a book is burning your brain to enlighten another man's mind."
"If I can write, who possibly can't. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing."
"Don't expect it to be given to you. It is there already. Get it if you want it."
"If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction."
"God is what you imagine him to be."
"Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move."
"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
"The instinct of self-preservation is above all the laws."
"Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live accordingly to cope with it."
"People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth."
"The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live."
"Opportunity and risk come in pairs."
"Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home."
"Paradise is the heart of the people who speak well of you; who think fondly about you because of your exemplary life. Hell is is the heart of the people who curse you, who wish you were dead for your evil actions against them."
"What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope."
"Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways."
"Somethings are simply better left the way they are."
"Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths."
"The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it's not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and live. These thieves are praised as national heroes and liberators or as successful entrepreneurs."
"Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some."
"As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal."
"Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people."
"What some politicians really mean when they saythis country: me, my party, my ethnic groupinternational justice is biased: they want to arrest meterrorists: oppositionillegal immigrants: refugeeselections: remaining in powerpeace: eliminating the oppositioninternational community: the rich countriesthe people: sympathisers of my party."
"Many smiling faces hide a bleeding heart."
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